Adams and his co-founders, Dhanji Prasanna and Jochen Bekmann, also left because they felt unplugged from Google's main culture and activity over in the main Mountain View campus. Here's what they said:

...being in Sydney meant it was "hard to stay in the minds of the people over in Mountain View".

"When we did our work we'd take it over to them and they'd be like 'Yeah that's cool but we can't do anything with it.'"

Google has tons of satellite offices all around the world. Do they all have an experience like this? We'd love to hear about it — shoot us a message at mlynley@businessinsider.com if you are a current or former employee in one of Google's satellite offices.